[Pythonmac-SIG] tarfile fails silently on 10.4?

[Ronald Oussoren]

On 20 Jan, 2007, at 15:33, Nir Soffer wrote:

> I used to use tarfile on 10.3 to extract a bz2 compressed tarball. I
> tried the code today on 10.4, and untaring fail silently after about
> 5% of tarball content, without any error.
>
> This is the failing code:
>
>          tar = tarfile.open(os.path.join(SHARE, 'underlay.tar.bz2'),
> mode='r:bz2')
>          for member in tar:
>              tar.extract(member, WIKI)
>          tar.close()
>
> The tarball contains 794 pages, but this code will extract only 47
> pages. Again, this used to work correctly about 1 year ago with  
> 10.3.7.

The script looks fine. How did you create the archive?

Ronald
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